Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Research Associate Position - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

This position is a full-time position to start in the spring/summer of 2018. Interested applicants should expect to graduate in the Spring 2018 or Fall 2017.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with the first round of interviews in early October.

What are the day-to-day activities?

• Perform statistical, econometric, computational and analytical research that economists can use for publication in academic journals.
• Utilize statistical packages such as Stata, SAS, R, Matlab, Fortan, Python and C++.
• Collect, organize and interpret economic and financial data.
• Review academic journals, market sources and government reports.
• Write memoranda or assist economists in developing memoranda and presentations on current economic and financial conditions and policy issues.
• Attend to additional assignments, including gathering and organizing survey data and anecdotal information and summarizing economic data for the Beige Book.

Interested candidates can find more details of the position here.